Sports

In a close and hotly contested race, the Ballard girls cross country team finished fourth in a field of nine teams at the Fort Worden Invitational on Saturday.

Lake Stevens won the girls competition with a team score of 77 points, followed…MORE

The Ballard High School football team overcame a tough start and a tough season to get its first win of 2009.

The Beavers (1-2 conference, 1-5 overall) beat Lake Washington (1-2 conference, 1-5 overall) 20-14 Oct. 9.

Coach John…MORE

The Ballard High School girls swim team came up just short during its Oct. 9 meet against Juanita, losing 93-92.

The Beavers had a good day overall, winning a number of events and posting a handful of state qualifying times.

Ballard…MORE

It is one of the most stirring sights in all of sport --- a single cross country team, with nearly 5,000 meters of distance run, charging the finish line en masse. So it happened last Thursday, Oct 8, at Lincoln Park.

In a five-team meet…MORE

After two straight shutout losses, the Ballard High School boys tennis team made some positive gains in a 5-2 loss to Juanita Oct. 8.

Ballard's Neal Berg blanked his Juanita opponent in their singes match, winning in two games by a score…MORE

The Ballard High School boys golf team ended the season with its fifth loss in a row Oct. 8, this time 212-227 to Bellevue.

No Ballard player cracked the top five in scoring.

The Beavers finished the season with a 1-7 record. The…MORE

For nearly 58 minutes on Oct. 8 it looked like the Ballard High School girls soccer team would earn its first win since Sept. 22.

Senior Sara Ives had given the Beavers a 1-0 lead in the 22nd minute, and the team held off Roosevelt for the…MORE

Thomas Jefferson graduate Tony Barnette finished his season with the Reno Aces, the Class AAA affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Barnette posted a record of 14-8 and an ERA of 5.79. He pitched 164.2 innings with 62 walks and 121 strikeouts.…MORE

Eighty minutes of well-done workmanship resulted in a 1-0 Thomas Jefferson whitewashing of Kentridge in a South Puget Sound League North girls soccer encounter at Federal Way Memorial Field on Saturday.

Youth-laden Jefferson improved its…MORE

Don't stop believin'.

That's the Journey song that played to start the first of three races, and the Thomas Jefferson girls cross country team obviously did not let a little blip of another school taking their limelight a couple years stop…MORE